Traitors and True Poles. Karen Majewski

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      Traitors and True Poles

      Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

       Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk

      Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

      Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

      SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

      Stanislaus A. Blejwas (1941–2001), Central Connecticut State University

      Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

      Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior

      Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

      Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

      Thomas S. Gladsky, Saint Mary’s College of Ave Maria University (ret.)

      Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado at Boulder

      John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

      Ewa Morawska, University of Pennsylvania

      Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

      Brian Porter, University of Michigan

      James S. Pula, Utica College of Syracuse University

      Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Saint Mary’s College of Ave Maria University

      Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

      Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

      Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

      Traitors and True Poles

       Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939

      Karen Majewski

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      © 2003 by Karen Majewski

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Majewski, Karen.

      Traitors and true Poles : narrating a Polish-American identity, 1880–1939 / by Karen Majewski.

      p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8214-1469-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8214-1470-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. American literature—Polish American authors—History and criticism. 2. Polish Americans—Intellectual life. 3. Polish Americans in literature. 4. Immigrants in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

      PS153.P65 M35 2003

      810.9'89185—dc21

      2002030711

      Cover art: From Jak można osięgnąć bogactwo i wpływ w Ameryce (How to acquire money and influence in America) [Toledo: Paryski], 1911.

      ISBN 978-0-8214-4111-4 (e-book)

       Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:

      Polish American Historical Association, Orchard Lake, Michigan

      Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

      St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University, Orchard Lake, Michigan

      The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc., New York, New York

       Additional support for this book has been provided by the Kulczycki Prize awarded by the Polish American Historical Association

       To Helena Staś

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

       Guide to Pronunciation

       INTRODUCTION. Reading the Immigrant

       1. Writing Polish: Literature and the Construction of Polishness in America

       2. “Blessed Are the Light Bearers”: Polish-American Publishing before World War II

       3. Crime, Punishment, Atonement: A Family Plot

       4. Crossings and Double-Crossings: Family Ties

       5. Power Plays: A Family Squabble

       6. Love, Sex, and the State of Marriage: A Family Reunion

       EPILOGUE. Continuities: Polish Immigrant Literature Then and Now

       PROFILES. Selected Polish Immigrant Authors and Publishers

       Notes

       Bibliographic Essay: Strategies in Recovering Polish Immigrant Writings

       Bibliography

       Index

      Illustrations

      CHAPTER 1

       The children’s section of a 1910 Polish-American women’s magazine, Ogniwo (The link)

       Editorial staff of Chicago’s Głos ludowy

       Immigrant socialists in Canada, with author Alfons Staniewski